TY - BOOK ID - 3028879 TI - Preachers by night : the Waldensian Barbes, 15th-16th centuries PY - 2007 VL - v. 118 SN - 15734188 SN - 9789004154544 900415454X 9786611457716 128145771X 9047411315 9789047411314 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Waldenses. KW - Preaching KW - History KW - 284.42 KW - Valdenses KW - Valdenští KW - Valdesi KW - Vallenses KW - Vaudois KW - Waldensians KW - Christian sects KW - Humiliati KW - Waldenzen. Leonisten. Pauvres de Lyon. Arnoldisten. Les Barbus. Siscidenses. Chiesa evangelica Valdese KW - 284.42 Waldenzen. Leonisten. Pauvres de Lyon. Arnoldisten. Les Barbus. Siscidenses. Chiesa evangelica Valdese KW - Waldenses KW - Verkondiging. KW - Waldenzen. KW - Preaching - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3028879 AB - First inspired by Vaudes in around 1170, the Waldensians formed a religious dissent which survived into the sixteenth century. Respecting the Gospel to the letter, their rejection of oaths, falsehood, the death penalty, purgatory and the intercession of saints marginalized them in the society of the times. Their survival depended on their will to adapt. Organisation became necessary to withstand the pressures of time and space as their community extended across Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Poland). Preachers, called “barbes” in the diaspora’s Romance wing, embodied the ideal lifestyle and unity of their community. This is the story and history of those preachers – celibate, arduous, pious men whose itinerant mission it was to maintain a clandestine but vehement faith. ER -